A global hotelier has scored a Manhattan home near where his company first put down roots.Richard Chiu, founder of the chain Warwick Hotels and Resorts, whose initial acquisition in 1980 was Midtown’s Warwick Hotel, purchased the three-bedroom condo on Columbus Circle for $17.3 million, according to a property record that appeared in the city register Tuesday.The 3,900-square-foot unit in the south spire of the two-towered condo complex long known as the Time Warner Center and now called the Deutsche Bank Center, went into contract May 30 and closed Sept. 5, says its deed, which details that Chiu bought the unit with his wife, Ann Chiu.The arrow-shaped apartment offers a formal dining room, floor-to-ceiling windows and Central Park views, including from the primary suite, whose bath is tucked in the unit’s point.The condo’s seller was a trust linked to Mikhail Kurnev, the managing partner of Forum Absolute Capital Partners, a residential development firm. Kurnev, who built dorms for New York University earlier in his career, paid $9.9 million for the apartment in 2004, records show.He has tried to sell the unit before, according to listings site StreetEasy. In 2012 Kurnev put the property on the market for a hefty $50 million before removing it two years later without any takers. He may have rented out the home in ensuing years; at one point it was listed for $30,000 a month, according to the site. The apartment came back up for sale in January 2024 at $22 million before... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
[ Crains New York | 2024-09-24 17:00:13 UTC ]
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Headline Review has scooped Bruce Holsinger's "electrifying" novel, The Gifted School, while rights for a TV version have been secured by Universal Television. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 04:08:06 UTC ]
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We chatted with Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre, the team behind HOTEL DARE, a fantasy graphic novel about hotels that hide doorways to magical worlds. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-09-05 10:39:19 UTC ]
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Poet Patience Agbabi has branched out into children’s fiction with a time-travelling middle grade series with Canongate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 01:24:07 UTC ]
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Chicken House has snapped up rights to The House on Hoarder Hill by debut writing duo Mikki Lish and Kelly Ngai, in a deal done between Chicken House publisher Barry Cunningham and Oliver Latsch of LatschLit. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-02 15:46:10 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury imprint Green Tree will publish a “heartfelt” book about female incontinence by writer Luce Brett entitled PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo to Tell the Tale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-29 01:52:50 UTC ]
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Canongate has acquired a noir thriller by Buenos Aires-based janitor and author K Ferrari. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 18:47:30 UTC ]
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Ann Cleeves' latest book The Long Call (Pan Macmillan) has been snapped up for a television series by Silverprint Pictures. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-27 07:15:07 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press has snapped up rights to QI assistant producer Anne Miller's debut children's series, with illustrations by Becka Moor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-22 05:01:02 UTC ]
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Hutchinson will publish the debut of New York comedian Shelby Lorman, creator of the viral Instagram feed ‘Awards for Good Boys’. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-21 02:04:26 UTC ]
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Vertebrate children’s imprint Shrine Bell has snapped up Lily Dyu’s debut children's book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-15 13:02:33 UTC ]
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Egmont has snapped up two more middle-grade novels from The Land of Roar author Jenny McLachlan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-15 04:07:08 UTC ]
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Arrow will publish playwright Trish Harnetiaux's debut novel, a psychological thriller about a Christmas party that turns deadly, later this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-14 21:21:49 UTC ]
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Indie publisher Mensch will publish William Waldegrave's analysis of post-Brexit referendum Britain next month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-13 09:41:25 UTC ]
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William Collins has acquired a collection of letters from contributors including Yoko Ono, Mark Rylance and Green MP Caroline Lucas urgently responding to the climate crisis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 13:23:26 UTC ]
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Walker Books has triumphed in an eight-way auction to publish the follow up to Malamander by Thomas Taylor in a six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 07:54:33 UTC ]
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Allie Reynolds’ sought after thriller Shiver (Headline) has been snapped up by Firebird Pictures for adaptation into a TV series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-09 13:20:31 UTC ]
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Sceptre has triumphed in an eight-way bidding war to win the highly anticipated Fleabag: Scriptures, the book of the BBC comedy series by its creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, The Bookseller can reveal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-06 15:22:55 UTC ]
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Orlando software and digital publishing firm firm BlueToad Inc. has partnered with Amazon Inc. to launch a new voice technology service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Amazon Polly, a service that turns text into speech, will adopt a Neural Text-to-Speech Newscaster Voice program that... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-08-05 16:04:37 UTC ]
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Orion Fiction has snapped up a new police procedural thriller series from Louisa de Lange. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-05 03:59:49 UTC ]
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Audiobook and large-print publisher W F Howes has acquired the Dr Alexander Gregory trilogy by self-published author Louise Ross. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-04 18:27:22 UTC ]
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